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Earlier this week, Michelle Obama launched “Let’s Move,” the new national childhood obesity prevention campaign. Though I rarely talk about work here, it was an exciting day for my organization, which has been working on this issue as part of a larger initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. As with all Washington, DC [...]

Like everyone else, I am nauseous over the tragedy that has unfolded in Haiti, by the death and destruction and sheer horror of the images broadcasting from Port au Prince and other parts of the country. Here is what sinks my stomach to a dark pit: I cannot help but think about the 30,000-foot view [...]

I am a huge fan of a good party. I mean, really. BRING IT. But when that party involves tomato destruction, well, I simply can’t condone it. And this is why I must condemn the (otherwise) good people of Buñol, in Spain, where they just celebrated the 64th annual “Tomatina,” an opportunity for people to [...]

National Farmer’s Market Week is August 2-8, a week where even the markets in the harshest zones of the U.S. climate should be bursting with amazing produce. Tomato season’s in full swing, people. Take. Advantage. (And if you don’t like tomatoes, buy some anyway and just mail ‘em to me.) Over at The Huffington Post, [...]

Some of you have already noticed a new tab that appeared recently at the top of the blog. See it? Up there? The one that says Inadvertently-approved products? Yeah, that’s right. A few months ago, a start-up called The OpenSky Project contacted me to ask whether I’d be interested in working with them to build [...]

I’ve spent a lot of time during the past few years educating myself on the food I eat, and have worked hard to make ever-better, ever-wiser choices. I’m by no means vegetarian, but I eat a lot less meat than I used to. I try to shop for locally-produced and -grown goods…most of the time. [...]

About a week ago on Michael Bauer’s San Francisco Chronicle food blog, he broke the news that Bill Fujimoto of Monterey Market would be leaving the market as of today due to a business dispute within his family. The news shocked me, especially since, less than a year ago, I got the honor of walking [...]

I haven’t actually checked out the Kindle yet, partially because I don’t need any more electronic toys in my life, and partially because I’m pretty sure that an additional electronic toy is just the kind of thing I could easily convince myself I must have. I realize I could download the Kindle app for my [...]

For a happy-go-lucky girl, I do spend a fair amount of time imagining disaster. If the Big One hits while I’m sleeping, no books or heavy decorative items will fall on me—I already thought about that and hung nothing over my bed when I moved here. I still vary my regular route from time to [...]

In these difficult economic times, there are certain things one should, in fact, not do. Among those things? Pay $1,500 for a giant, hollow, metal tomato. Today, thanks to SFist and Meowmix (which has a picture of the beast), I discovered the giant tomato, which adorned a building in San Francisco’s SOMA district, was on [...]